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Group exhibition In Brooklyn

Exhibition Dates: December 9 - 30, 2017

La Bodega Gallery is excited to host its first annual Holiday Market on Saturday, December 9th, 2017 from 12:00-8:00pm. This event and exhibition will assemble a dynamic group of 20+ artists and 15+ vendors from the New York area and beyond. The diverse programming – art opening and live music from 5:00-8:00pm, food and beverages for sale, and a raffle featuring prizes from some of South Slope’s favorite small businesses – is sure to draw a crowd ready to buy gifts for the holiday season! Centrally located between Sunset Park and Park Slope, La Bodega seeks to build bridges (not walls!) and we hope it will bring people together in our Brooklyn community and beyond. I will be exhibiting small watercolors for sale (pictured below).

Gallery: La Bodega Gallery, 695 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215

See below for photographs of the exhibition:

GROUP Exhibition THAT BRIDGES ART AND SCIENCE

I am excited to announce that I will be participating in an exhibition hosted by the SciArt Center. "The Void and the Cloud" is a permanent online exhibition on the SciArt Website here, and a pop-up exhibition at UES Gallery in New York. The pop-up exhibition will take place at the Sci Art Center at TheUES Gallery in NYC from December 2-3, 2017. This exhibition is curated by Marnie Benney, and George Musser - Editor at Scientific American.

“Nothingness is really like the nothingness of space, which contains the whole Universe. All the sun and the stars and the mountains and rivers and the good men and the bad men and the animals and the insects, the whole bit: all are contained in the void. So out of this void comes everything, and you’re it." - Alan Watts

Quantum mechanics is founded on a duality; two contradictory descriptions, the mechanistic nature of reality must be described in both wave and particle terms. Human existence too is founded on a duality; coming out of nothingness, it is human nature to combat this state and evolve complexity, build civilizations, and imagine our futures. Yet the nothingness is always there, our universe ever-expanding into the uncharted void. And the void is where we may return, as T.S. Eliot describes, through a bang or through a whimper. Far before our poetic cosmic end we may find ourselves abandoning physical reality for another: the digital ether. As we lose touch and control of our changing natural environment, we are building digital stand-ins of our physical lives. Not a void of nothingness, but an endless data cloud, digital platforms and devices like social media, smart phones, GPS, and FitBit are where and how we increasingly live. Disconnected and hyperconnected at once, the balance of our physical with our digital state is at a tipping point. Is human nature moving to a state of the non-physical? Will this non-physical state expand endlessly into the digital ether, as our physical universe expands into the void? What happens to the physical world, the physical self, in a digital-dominated era? Can we exist in a dual state of being and non-being?

Exhibition Press: View an exhibition review by SciArt Magazine from 4/11/2017 here. The author writes, "In contrast, Sarah Eagen invites the viewer to experience a very intimate, personal setting, not engaging abstract ideas like much of the work in this exhibition, but rather highlighting the physical details of bodies laid bare in stripped environments. Combining a portrayal of impersonal glitches, the search for human interaction, and contact by exposing ourselves is Sierra Ortega, whose work balances the being and non-being expertly. Intimate like Eagen’s work, Ortega’s d1s1nt3grat3 is both kitschily entertaining and sad in its isolation. The body itself is losing pixels like snowflakes or dust, painting a heart-wrenching, haunting picture."

Gallery: UES Gallery, 208 E 73rd St, New York NY

All In: featuring the work of 10 Breakout artists

Exhibition Dates: November 16 - December 9, 2017

South St. Gallery is pleased to announce All In a group exhibition that features ten breakout artists - Herbert Baglione, John Felix Arnold III, Ogulcan Kush, Travis Bedel, Erik Otto, Boris Ipsum, Raul Barquet, Emily Weiskopf, Jamie Martinez and Sarah Allen Eagen - who push the limits of their respective media in extraordinary ways. All In is a symbolic exhibition that draws comparisons between the way each artist employs unique techniques to explore what it means to be “all in” or fully committed to one’s artistic practice in contemporary society. South St. Gallery will host an opening reception on November 16th at 392 S 5th St. Brooklyn, NY, 11211 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

There are moments in life when a person is ready to be “all in”: it is a conscious decision to put everything on the line. The artists featured in this exhibition are from around the world - Brazil, Germany, Columbia, Turkey, Canada and the United States – and each have faced unique challenges in pursuing their passions. From moving across the country with nothing but a few belongings, and no job to speak of; to leaving well-paying jobs in order to give more to their art; the artists included in this exhibition have faced great personal challenges that took many forms, testing their resilience and devotion repeatedly in order to pursue their passion for art. It is the conscious choice to pursue creativity that makes these artists remarkable. Though the artists’ styles and mediums may be varied, the artists exhibiting share a passion that triumphs and drives them to create. They have chosen to live all in.

All In assembles 24 works of art in various media: The works on view range in scale, media, and approach, and include painting, collage, mixed media and photography on silk. By exhibiting the works together in the same space, a visual language is built that transcends specific mediums or one conceptual agenda. Ultimately, this exhibition explores what it means to be an artist in contemporary society.

About South St. Gallery: South St Gallery was founded in 2017 by Lynzy Blair and Adonis Aracena. The gallery hosts regular exhibitions by emerging and mid-career contemporary artists with profits re-invested in the development and implementation of educational classes for young men and women in the community ranging from the basics of financial health to music software programming. Our goal is to empower the local community by providing exposure to and opportunities in the world of art and music.

Gallery: South St. Gallery, 392 S 5th St., Brooklyn, NY, 11211

View the exhibition works online here, and see below for photographs of the exhibition.

Art Toronto 2017

Art Fair Dates: October 27-30, 2017

I am excited to announce that my work is featured atArt Toronto (Oct 27-30, 2017), Toronto’s own international art fair. My work is being featured at Vellum Magazine’s booth– two of my silk works can be seen hanging in the booth, and also featured in the pages of the magazine. If you make it to Art Toronto this year, please check it out.

Global Goals Jam |FCAD, Faculty of Communication and Design and MediaLAB Amsterdam invited participants to imagine a sustainable future for Toronto at an exciting design thinking event, GGJxToronto. Global Goals Jam x Toronto is a local design jam looking to find creative solutions to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Working within the wider initiative #GlobalGoalsJam2017, initiated by MediaLAB Amsterdam and partnered with the United Nations, this event tackles pertinent local issues related to fostering a sustainable creative ecosystem in Toronto, during the EDIT Festival on October 1 and 2, 2017. #GlobalGoalsJam2017 is a global two-day event consisting of short design sprints in 23 countries. Creative teams of designers, developers and Jammers from local communities will work together to create interventions aimed at short term targets in support of the long term goals.

Edit: Expo for Design, Innovation, and Technology | Edit is an immersive expo-meets-festival designed to celebrate the innovative work that is making the world a better place for all people. In 2015, the UNDP (United Nations Development Program) launched the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the moment that convinced us it was time to share the real opportunity for design. The 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development include ending poverty and hunger, improving health and education, making cities more sustainable, combatting climate change, and protecting oceans and forests by 2030. While a big job remains ahead of us over a very short period of time, we know that some of these have decreased in the last two decades in large part because of design. Much more is to come. For example, drones are monitoring disaster regions; vertical gardens are expanding new opportunities for food production; and food waste is being transformed into precious renewable energy.

Location: 21 Don Roadway, Toronto, ON ON M4M 3P2, Canada

United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit 2017

Event Dates: September 21, 2017

It is a privilege to participate in the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York on September 21, 2017. Which brings together an international community of leaders from business, civil society, academia, Government and the United Nations to accelerate business action and partnerships to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Climate Agreement.

Group Exhibition at La Bodega GALLERY

Exhibition Dates: September 1-30 2017

I am excited to announce that I will be participating in a group exhibition "RE: patterns" at La Bodega Studios, this September 2017. The opening reception will be on September 15 from 7-10pm at 695 5th Ave, in Brooklyn NY. The exhibition is curated by Johnny Thornton, and includes work by Miguel Ayuso, Cecelie Beck, AM DeBrrincat, Michele Hemsoth, Grace Hong, George Horner, Cem Kocyildirim, LJ Lindhurst, Daniel Morowitz, Signe Rudolfsen, Johnny Thornton and Michael Watson. I look forward to seeing you at the opening!

Gallery: La Bodega Gallery, 695 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215

Exhibition at Ground Floor Gallery

Exhibition Dates: September 28 - October 15, 2017

I am excited to announce that I will be participating in a group exhibition "Drums on Paper: With the Neighbors" at Ground Floor Gallery, this September 2017. The opening reception will be on Thursday September 28from 7-10pm at343 5th St, Brooklyn, NY. The exhibition is curated by Cem Koçyıldırım from Authorized to Work in the US Press.

Gallery: Ground Floor Gallery, 343 5th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Group Exhibition IN EAST VILLAGE GALLERY

Pop- Up Exhibition Dates: March 17-18 2017

I'm excited to be part of the group exhibition Per Aspera ad Astra ("through hardship to the stars"), a group exhibition curated by multidisciplinary artist and musician Cecilie Beck. She describes her curatorial inspiration: "In a time and place like the one we live in, artists must stay focused and shine an inspirational light that leads the way to a brighter future for themselves and the world around them." Please join us for this fun and topical group exhibition taking place from March 17-18 in the East Village, 702 East 5th Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY (Friday March 17 from 7-10PM, and Saturday March 18 from 2-5PM).

Group Exhibition at CENTRAL BOOKING's OffLINE Space

Exhibition Dates: March 2-19 2017

I will be participating in an upcoming group exhibition, NYC, atCENTRAL BOOKING’s OffLINE Space in New York. The exhibition runs from March 2nd - March 19th, 2017 with an opening reception on Friday March 3, 6-8pm. The exhibition is curated by Stephanie Young of Vellum Magazine, and there will be a special print edition of the Magazine to accompany the exhibition. New York City has always been a melting pot of not only people but ideas, hopes and dreams. The curator wanted to capture through the work of these 15 artists is a mood that is reflective of a huge metropolis. It can be literal, metaphorical or biographical but something in the narrative shows us a glimpse of this great city in a unique and timely way.

Feature in Vellum Magazine

I am excited to announce that my work is featured in Vellum Magazine, issue 18. Not only has Vellum partnered with a number of international art fairs, but the magazine has been picked up by a new distributer, and this issue will be available at 75 stores nationwide! Check out Vellum Magazine's Instagram for a full list of distributors.

National juried Group Exhibition | Duality of Feminine and Feminist

Exhibition Dates: March 3 - April 1, 2017

I will be participating in an upcoming group exhibition at Gallery 66 in Cold Spring New York. Gallery 66 presents a National juried exhibit of artworks about what the “Duality of Feminine and Feminist” means in the Trump Era. Endless news cycles emphasize the fragmentary nature of our present society and divided nation. Artists ponder “How do women deal with how their gender is portrayed in this heavily charged political atmosphere? Curated by Karen Gutfruend. On view March 3rd thru April 2nd, with an opening reception Friday, March 3, 6-9 pm.

“Gallery 66 NY invited artists in a national open call to respond with artworks about what the ‘Duality of Feminine and Feminist’ means. Endless news cycles emphasize the fragmentary nature of our present society and divided nation. With this in mind, we asked our artists a number of questions to ponder. ‘How do women deal with how their gender is portrayed in this heavily charged political atmosphere?,’ ‘Should women and society at large be concerned with the manner in which a woman is portrayed as strong/weak, beautiful/ugly, feminine/feminist?,’ ‘Why are women’s rights under attack?’ and ‘Is the current political atmosphere an attempt to return to the stereotypical view of women as submissive and passive?’

“Artist voices in response juried into this exhibit come from across our nation. Artworks were chosen in a thoughtful and respectful process by artist/curator Karen Gutfreund, who has a long track record for creating, curating and jurying exhibits on themes of ‘art as activism.’ In fact, Gutfreund had just finished mounting her 25th major national group exhibition when she agreed to jury our exhibition. Her co-owned company, Gutfreund Cornett Art, is a curatorial program that specializes in creating exhibitions in venues around the U.S. She is a member of ArtTable, curator for unitewomen.org and the Northern California rep for TheFeministArtProject.

Group Exhibition | THE SEX SHOW

Exhibition Dates: February 15-26, 2017

My work will be featured in an upcoming exhibition in Toronto, Canada atGallery 1313's annual The Sex Show, curated by Phil Anderson. The definition of sex and sexuality has and always will be open to interpretation. Each individual has his/ her own definition of what is considered sexual. What factors are recognized in the process defining something as ‘sexual’ or ‘erotic’? The Sex Show approaches the topic of sex from all angles, exhibiting works that vary on a broad scale, from art that is more explicit to art that is more elusive in content. Not only does The Sex Show contain a wide variety of sex-related themes and contents, it also exhibits the use of abundantly different mediums such as ,photography sculpture, painting and mixed media . Participating artists include Nora House, Sarah Allen Eagen, Hooley McLaughlin, Emily Lalonde, Natashavon Rosenshilde , Clare Allin, Jacqueline Gallant , Veronica Blanco, Eduardo Gutierrez , Norman Barney ,Joy San, Jarvis Alston, Laura Thipphawong and others. The exhibition will run fromFebruary 15 – 26, 2017. Please join us at the opening reception on February 16, 8:00 pm!

Group Exhibition at Ground Floor Gallery

Exhibition Dates: January 27 - 30, 2017

I'm excited to be participating in Drums on Paper III. An exhibition featuring affordable art prints from 17 different international artists. The opening reception is on January 27 at 6:30pm at Ground Floor Gallery. Limited edition prints of my work are being sold through authorizedtowork.us.

Gallery: Ground Floor Gallery, 343 5th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Feature in Studio Visit Magazine

My work was featured in Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 38. You can check out the full issue online here.

Feature in Artslant | Under the Radar

I have been selected amongst the top 3 artists who are "Under the Radar" for this week, by Artslant, see the full feature here.

Chashma Studio Space Residency Recipient 2016

I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a studio space residency by chashama. I am excited to be a part of the chashama community of artists! I will be a resident from September 1 - December 30, 2016

Solo Exhibition | Feed me diamonds

Exhibition Dates: September 18 - October 4, 2015

Vitrina Gallery is pleased to present Feed Me Diamonds, a site specific installation of new mixed media work by Sarah Allen Eagen. Feed Me Diamonds explores the relationship between saturation, material inequality and modern anxiety. The title of the exhibition is an absurd proposition: It reflects an enduring attraction and impossible obsession with glamour as a contemporary preoccupation that is part curse, part pleasure, part impossible fantasy. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Thursday September 18 at Vitrina Gallery (90 Stanton St., New York, New York) from 6pm to 9pm.

Feed Me Diamonds invites viewers to confront notions of narcissism, consumption, and instant gratification. Inspired by the idea of “affluenza,” a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, a term used by critics of consumerism and is a used to describe a psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy young people. The artist interprets the term affluenza literally: Throughout the exhibition, figurative sculptures are pockmarked with rhinestones which obscure their humanity. This body of work co-mingles representations of fashion and decadence with references to illness, trauma and decay: accessories, rhinestones and other symbols of wealth appear to be a contagious infection of the skin and body of the figures in these mixed media works and sculptures. Fashion has always played a leading role in constructing images and meanings during periods of rapid social, economic and technological change: It can act out instability or loss, or it can stake out the territory of new social and sexual identities.

What makes Eagen’s work interesting, is her fierce and contemporary use of the well-worn medium of collage as a metaphor for shifting concepts of global identity. This new body of work work reflects the ways in which societies labels impact identity, and the ways in which identity is always fugitive. The artist’s process mimics amputation, transplant operations and torturous prosthetics. The mixed media collage, “Money to Burn”, that features a photograph of a body without a head or legs; the figure wears a sequined dress and coat, while a single arm holds a glass of wine. The figures is a freakish and erotic hybrid of the contemporary and post-human. These sometimes garish, diseased, ravaged and distorted figures are made from seductive or silly materials like glossy photographs, glitter or rhinestones or fur. The sculpture, “Feed Me Glass”, echoes the form of a human face with a large tumorous silver growth on the side of its head. Made from foam, wax and rhinestones, these accessories resemble tumors, or prosthetic body parts that are competing with or taking over the body

Feed Me Diamonds examines the dark underpinnings of that which has become commonplace, and is an exploration of identity politics and consumer culture. In this exhibition representations of fashion and decadence are co-mingled with references death, trauma and decay. These artworks explore the idea of saturation and suggests that this is a manifestation of modern anxieties about Western-consumer culture.

Gallery: Vitrina Gallery, 90 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002

Solo Exhibition | Tender: Intimacy in the Digital Age

Exhibition Dates: July 9 - August 1, 2015

BAU Gallery is pleased to present Tender: Intimacy in the Digital Age, an immersive site-specific installation featuring new artwork by Sarah Allen Eagen, marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in Beacon, New York. Tender: Intimacy in the Digital Age explores the sensual, vulnerable, and alienating aspects of the digitization of society. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, July 11 at BAU Gallery (506 Main Street, Beacon, New York) from 6pm to 9pm.

Tender: Intimacy in the Digital Age explores interpersonal relationships in the twenty-first century, where intimacy is often replaced with immediacy. “Tender” is a play on “Tinder,” the name of the ubiquitous dating app whose tag-line is “Tinder is how people meet. It's like real life, but better.” The Internet has an immediate and powerful impact on human relationships, and this exhibition is Inspired by the ways in which the human experience is mediated by digital skins. Eagen’s work highlights the ways in which people communicate and construct their identity in an online world and demonstrates how the desire for connection can be found in the ways in which people use technology to connect with one and another.

In the site-specific mixed media installation, Intimacy in the Digital Age, twelve artworks on Mylar are hung unframed in a grid formation. Each individual 8.5” x 11” mixed media artwork features a portrait of a fragmented photograph which floats inches from the wall on which it is mounted. These provocative images depict fragmented figures that are simultaneously unnerving and alluring: the source image is distanced from its referent creating an elasticity between what is shown and what is understood. This work explores the ways in which individuals create online identities, and relationships. Eagen’s figures defy easy categorization and gender identification and float on empty backgrounds. Each mixed media artwork in hung in close proximity to the next, and appears to be reaching, a futile attempt to cross the border into the figure next to it. Each portrait is not of an individual, but of a persona that is ultimately alone.

The virtual world provides a seemingly quick fix in the search for meaningful bonds. When one feels alone, they can send a text, or search for a new connection, and receive immediate feedback. These transient cyber connections can be satisfying in the short term, but are a different experience than as face-to-face, voice-to-ear, skin-to-skin communication.There is a power and fragility underlying this desire for connection and hidden moments of contact as this tenderness is mediated by technology.

Solo Exhibition | Anatomy of Desire: New Work by Sarah Allen Eagen

Exhibition Dates: February 14th – March 1st, 2015

Chashama 461 Gallery is pleased to present Anatomy of Desire, Sarah Allen Eagen’s debut solo exhibition in New York City. Presenting new mixed media and sculptural work from the artist’s cross-disciplinary practice: This exhibition uses the vocabulary of human anatomy to explore psychological states by focusing on the violent side of the desire to connect and the tensions present within the act of longing. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, September 15 at Chashama 461 Gallery (461 W 126 St., New York, New York) from 6pm to 9pm.

Anatomy of Desire features provocative images of female independence at its most intimate, centering explicitly on the body, and invites us to consider the ways women do and do not own their bodies. For instance, “Her Throat Cut” is a small mixed media work which combines photography and drawn elements. A pair of unshaved legs brandishing metallic high heels protrudes from painted elements which resemble a blood splatter. The figure without a head or hands is poised in the midst of what looks like an act of violence. Similarly, “And then they touch you,” a large scale painting depicting an abstract group of people with outstretched hands. In this painting, it is difficult to discern where one figure ends and another begins. This work interrelates notions of individuality and collectivity: there are traces of the individual contained in the collective, and similarly traces of collective social norms contained within the individual.

Anatomy of Desire explores human frailty and mortality and presents a space where contradictory ideas rub up against one and another. This body of work focuses on the tension between the artificial and the real, comfort and discomfort, and the stunning and the grotesque by exploring the moment when these distinctions dissolve.The viewer witnesses a bodily form quivering on the knife’s edge of seduction and repulsion, and must navigate this charged psychological space. Anatomy of Desire is a body of work which possess a disorienting doubleness - forcing the viewer to examine the work with extra care and putting them on intimate terms with one’s own vulnerability.

Book Publication | Co-authored Chapter

I'm excited to share that a chapter I co-authored, "Gun Violence: an International Perspective" is being published in B. J. Bushman (Ed.). Frontiers of Social Psychology: Aggression and Violence. New York: Rutledge. See more about the book below!

About the Book: This book provides a broad and contemporary overview of aggression and violence by some of the most internationally renowned researchers in the field. It begins with an integrative theoretical understanding of aggression and shows how animal models shed light on human aggression and violence.

Individual risk factors for aggression and violence from different research perspectives are then examined. First, there is a cognitive neuroscientific, neuropsychological, and psychophysiological study of the brain. It then explores the developmental psychological factors in aggressive behavior, incorporating work on gender and the family. Other perspectives include the role of testosterone, individual differences, and whether humans are innately wired for violence.

The following sections moves from the individual to the contextual risk factors for aggression, including work on the effects of adverse events and ostracism, guns and other aggressive cues including violent media, and drugs and alcohol.

Targets of aggression and violence are covered in the next section, including violence against women and loved ones; aggression between social groups; and the two very contemporary issues of cyberbullying and terrorism.

The book concludes with work showing how we may make the world a more peaceful place by preventing and reducing aggression and violence.

The volume is essential reading for upper-level students and researchers of psychology and related disciplines interested in a rigorous and multi-perspective overview of work on aggression and violence.

About the Book: Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the perspective of gender, addresses initiatives for peace with justice. Cases are analysed when the human security agenda, including UNSC resolution 1325, was in its initial phase and point to both the weakness of the concept and the unexpected direction it has taken. These discussions - always relevant - are more urgent than ever as gender-based violence against women has increased, resulting in new UNSC resolutions. Some chapters suggest that militarism and economic globalization must be directly confronted. Many of the contributors to the volume bridge the gap between academic research and activism as ’scholar-activists’ with an engaged connection to the situations they are describing. Human security remains an active component of policy and academic debates in security studies, women’s and gender studies, development studies, history and political economy as well as within NGO communities. This rich collection fills a needed gap in the literature and it does so in a language and style that is clear, accessible and reader-friendly.

residency | from the laboratory to the studio : Interdisciplinary practices in bioart

Residency Dates: May 16-June 16, 2012

From anatomical studies to landscape painting to the biomorphism of surrealism, the biological realm historically provided a significant resource for numerous artists. More recently, bio art has become a term referring to intersecting domains of the biological sciences and their incorporation into the plastic arts. Of particular importance in bio art is to summon awareness of the ways in which advancing biotechnologies alter social, ethical and cultural values in society. Coming to the fore in the early 1990s, bio art is neither media specific nor locally bounded. It is an international movement with practitioners in such regions as Europe, the U.S., Russia, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Several sub-genres of bio art exist within this overarching term: (1) Artists who employ the iconography of the 20th- and 21st-century sciences, including molecular and cellular genetics, transgenically altered living matter, reproductive technologies and neurosciences. All traditional media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing are employed to convey novel ways of representing life forms. (2) Artists who utilize computer software, systems theory and simulations to investigate aspects of the biological sciences such as evolution, artificial life and robotics through digital sculpture and new media installations. (3) Artists employing biological matter itself as their medium, including processes such as tissue engineering, plant breeding, transgenics and ecological reclamation. This interdisciplinary residency will take place in the new SVA Bio Art Laboratory located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea gallery district. The SVA Bio Art Lab houses microscopes for photo and video; skeletons; specimen and slide collections; a herbarium; and an aquarium, as well as a library. Each student resident is awarded a private studio space. The residency culminates in a public exhibition. Demonstrations include microscopy, plant tissue engineering, molecular cuisine and the production of micro ecosystems. Students may work in any media, including the performing arts.

The residency will be led by artist Suzanne Anker, Chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA. Faculty and visiting speakers will include artists, scientists and museum professionals such as Giovanni Frazzetto, Francois-Joseph Lapointe and Nurit Bar-Shai.

The Intelligence of Things | Parsons MFA exhibition at the kitchen ny

Please join us for the opening of the Parsons MFA Fine Art Thesis Exhibition, The Intelligence of Things, curated by Wendy Vogel and Jess Wilcox. The exhibition will take place at The Kitchen, May 18- 25, with an exclusive VIP reception on May 17, 5- 6 pm. The Intelligence of Things features twenty artists representing a wide range of artistic interests, media, and methods. The VIP reception will provide an opportunity for one-on-one conversation with the artists before the official public opening. The exhibition features new works by Maricruz Alarcón, Elysa D. Batista, Lauren Denitzio, Sarah Allen Eagen, John Furer, Brenda Goldstein, Bing Han, Grace Hong, Sara Jimenez, Lilian Kreutzberger, Wilson Parry, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Isaac Pool, Jessica Posner, G. Scott Raffield, Kaitlynn Redell, Christine Howard Sandoval, Chaney Lane Trotter, Michael Watson, and Ilyn Wong.

For a growing number of contemporary artists and thinkers, the ontology of objects has prompted new investigations and modes of making. Perhaps in reaction to the dominance of screens and images in our daily life, artistic practice has embraced the object-as-thing: estranged, powerful and physical. A like-minded investment in materiality can be observed among the 20 artists in this exhibition. The Intelligence of Things presents these artists’ practices, which attest to the importance of the object in contemporary life. In these works, spanning different aesthetics and mediums—painting, performance, photography, video, sculpture and installation—objects become ciphers for memory, desire and fantasy. Far from simple gestures, the things in these works articulate their place as icons and bodily analogs, and as protagonists in interiors, architectural spaces and the scope of history.

The exhibition privileges the role of the displayed objects over any overarching curatorial concept. As a title The Intelligence of Things both emphasizes this approach and illuminates these artworks’ powerful effect and affect. That is to say that following Kant’s purposeful purposelessness, these artworks upend our notions of a thing’s effect or intent, and each one has a particular character, demeanor, and accent—whether fierce or foppish. The Intelligence of Things brings together a group of works that resist clear categorization and do not adhere to rigid stylistic doctrines. The exhibition and the works therein, rather, critically explore how things and human subjects together produce meaning in the world.

About Parsons MFA Fine Arts Program: Parsons MFA Fine Arts program is committed to educating artists who will undertake essential roles in our society by offering a progressive, cross-media program that integrates dynamic studio practice with critical theory. For further information visit http://finearts.parsons.edu .

About Parsons The New School for Design: Parsons The New School for Design is one of the leading institutions for art and design education in the world. Based in New York but active around the world, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the full spectrum of design disciplines. Critical thinking and collaboration are at the heart of a Parsons education. Parsons graduates are leaders in their respective fields, with a shared commitment to creatively and critically addressing the complexities of life in the 21st century. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons.

Life. Serial. exhibition at propeller gallery

Exhibition Dates: July 18 - 29, 2012

The Propeller Centre for the Arts is pleased to present Life. Serial. an exhibition inspired by television shows. The recent resurgence in popularity of the sitcom, perhaps suggests a desire to go back to a "simpler time", when all life's problems got neatly resolved in a half-hour. This anecdotal exhibition is a reflection of the sitcoms we grew up with, from the 50s until the present. With the ever-present recession etched into our collective psyches, there is something almost comforting about the escapist quality captured through the glossy artifice of television. Denis McGrath writes, “When the real news is all doom and gloom, the dive to comedy and escapism is almost a reflex." Featuring artwork by Nicole Bazuin, Ellen Bleiwas, Mel Coleman, DNA Dodds, Sarah Allen Eagen, Philip Hare, Cheryl Hsu, Tai Kim, Gary MacLeod, Wendy MacMillan, Madeline Mathews, Pixel Dreams Team (PDT), Kendra Sartorelli, Andres Vosu, Benjamin Wieler, Ross Winter, and Erin Zimerman.

Surface Tension Group exhibition

Dates: 2012

Gallery: 25 East Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY

Adorn: The Female Figure in Folklore and Myth

Exhibition Dates: November 17 - December 19, 2012

Hamilton Street Gallery in Bound Brook, NJ presents "Adorn: The Female Figure in Folklore and Myth". From the tiny “Venus of Willendorf” statuette, carved out of mammoth ivory, to Sandro Botticelli’s dreamlike “Primavera” to Willem de Kooning’s tumultuous “Women” series, the female figure has had a long, continuous, and developmental union with the art world. In most cultures, the female figure has been historically depicted in religion, folklore and myth as a symbol of fertility, protection, nourishment, sexuality, beauty and love, as well as evil, power and destruction. For this exhibit artists submitted work that explores this long established and innate relationship connecting art, the artist, and the female figure.

“Honey I’m Home!” - was presented as part of a contemporary art festival in Toronto conceived, produced and evaluated by a team lead by three young female artists with the support of an extensive team of professionals and volunteers. The interactive film installation enabled the audience to co-create episodes of a situational comedy (sit com) by playing the role of “father” regardless of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or age in an effort to disrupt both the genre of sit com as well as the stereotypical notions of “family” (social goals), on a fully cost recovery sustainable basis (economic goals) while engaging the audience and breaking new ground (artistic goals). The production involved more than 50 professional and volunteer artists, screenwriters, writers, musicians, film editors, designers, technicians, stage crew, actors and others and engaged more than 60 audience members in 60 five minute film episodes created during a 12 hour exhibition period which was attended by more than 500 viewers.

The harried mother, two rambunctious kids and the clueless, bumbling father – welcome to the family sitcom. A classic, tried-and-true formula that we all know and love – but does it truly reflect the real experiences of the modern and diverse Canadian family? The exhibitHoney I'm Home! was featured in Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2011 and parodies the familiar sitcoms of the 1990s such as Full House, Everybody Loves Raymond or Home Improvement. You will recognize the popular representation of the archetypal nuclear family, the wacky yet touching plot lines, and of course – the omnipresent laugh tracks. It is a near-perfect classic sitcom except that it is missing only one thing – the "dad".

Nuit Blanche guests of all genders, ages, cultural backgrounds and sexual orientations were invited to fill in this missing father role of this original stereotypical sitcom during the night of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2011. The Nuit Blanche guest was filmed in the partial TV studio set visible behind a glass façade while the live footage was inserted into pre-taped episodes of Honey I'm Home! and projected to the audience outside – confronting the viewers with an unusually cast ‘father' in a traditional sitcom family.

2011 | H. Cunningham, She Does the City, "2011 Nuit Blanche Top Picks", September 28, 2011. - She Does the City selects "Honey I'm Home" as one of 17 must-see exhibits out of 130 Nuit Blanche Exhibits.